Nor Iron Bars a Cage

Art imitates life--or is it life that imitates art? Apparently both. First, in August 1971, there was the razzle-dazzle helicopter escape from a Mexico City prison of New York Businessman Joel Kaplan, convicted of a murder he said never happened. Then, last month, came the movie Breakout, in which Charles Bronson whisks framed Murderer Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison in, yes, a helicopter. Finally, last week, a man hired a helicopter at Mettetal Airport in Plymouth, Mich., and, once aloft, pulled a knife and ordered Pilot Richard Jackson to fly to the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson. The pilot set down within the walls and took aboard Inmate Dale Otto Remling, 46, who was serving six to ten years for larceny. The pickup took five seconds, only half the time Bronson planned, and Remling and his unidentified rescuer had the pilot land four miles north of the prison and escaped by car. In life as in art, not all escapes are successful. At week's end, police arrested Remling's alleged accomplices and recaptured the escapee himself in a Leslie, Mich., bar only 15 miles from the prison.

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